The delicious coffee based drink has long been a cocktail bar staple, but the toxic concoction of caffeine, booze and sugar makes the espresso martini a terrible choice for a good night’s sleep. According to legend, the Espresso Martini was invented in London’s Soho Brasserie, when a customer asked bartender Dick Bradsell for a cocktail […]

Another day, another article in the media telling you to ignore the nutritional advice they said yesterday because today there’s a NEW study that proves that a diet consisting of 1kg of jelly beans a day is good for you. It can be hard to make sense of the bombardment of news, views and opinions […]

By Charles Roche & Eleanor Holcroft- Liquid Intellect Many bartenders cry out ‘F*ck dry January’ every time an order is taken for anything non-alcoholic throughout January. In our industry of mixing drinks and balancing liquids, we should marvel in the challenge of creating something fantastic with no alcohol. The amazing thing about alcohol is that […]

Libby Limon is a professional nutritionist who works extensively with the hospitality industry. We asked our audience for questions they’d like to ask her and here are her responses: What are the smallest changes someone can make that have a huge impact? Eat balanced healthy meals that contain protein, carbohydrate, fibre and healthy fats in […]

The saying goes that you should never discuss religion and politics with people at the dinner table. I’m going to add a third topic: diet. As someone that eats a plant-based diet, (I can already hear some of you clicking away) I’ve discovered few things that are a more incendiary topic of conversation than what […]

Water, Water, Everywhere We all know the old saying ‘you are what you eat’, but in reality, we really are what we drink. The human body is between 50-65% water, varying dependent on age, fitness and sex and surface of our planet is 71% H20. It’d be fair to say that healthy water has a […]